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Bitcoin Down as Stocks Pare Losses After Fed Minutes

Bitcoin is down over 3% over the past 24 hours as stock prices also fell off after the release of the Federal Reserve's most recent meeting minutes. TheoTrade co-founder Don Kaufman discusses his reading of the impact of "inflationary pressures" and geopolitical tensions on the crypto markets, and where we're headed.

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Osprey Funds Founder Remains Bullish as Fed Ready to Shrink Balance Sheet Soon

Osprey Funds Founder and CEO Greg King shares his markets analysis as the Federal Reserve’s January meeting minutes show a soon shrinking balance sheet. King says that the market needs to get through this fed cycle to potentially get out of a bear market.

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Bitcoin Rangebound; Initial Support at $40K, Resistance at $46K

Bitcoin (BTC) was trading in a tight range between $43,000 and $44,000 over the past 24 hours. Support is nearby, which could limit pullbacks over the short term, CoinDesk’s Markets Analyst Damanick Dantes explains. He adds that traders are looking forward to March’s pending rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

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Minutes Show Fed Ready to Take Action, Mentions Crypto and Stablecoin Risks

Officials said they are ready to hike interest rates and also briefly mentioned the threat of crypto and stablecoins to the financial system.

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Irrelevance of January Fed Minutes Shows How Fast Monetary Policy Is Moving

The Federal Reserve is scheduled to release minutes of its January meeting later Wednesday but the market seems to have already moved on.

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Bitcoin Traders Preparing for Tumultuous March, Glassnode Says

Traders are de-leveraging because of expected turbulence coming from rate hikes and the potential conflict in Ukraine.

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VanEck CEO on Why the Talk About 'Recession' May Begin Later in the Year

VanEck CEO Jan Van Eck shares why we may start talking about the word "recession" later in the year on "All About Bitcoin." He adds that while he continues to buy, the pessimistic view is that "financial markets in general will have trouble digesting [the Federal Reserve's] interest rate hikes." Plus, reaction to the Senate Banking Committee's stablecoin hearing and its impact on the markets.

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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Price Jump Fades After US Inflation Spike

Buyers failed to sustain a brief recovery in BTC, while altcoins underperformed.

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Caitlin Long's Wyoming Crypto Bank Takes a Step Toward Fed Membership

It's no guarantee of Fed approval, but Avanti Bank now has a routing number through the American Bankers Association.

Avanti CEO Caitlin Long (CoinDesk archives)

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NY Fed: Stablecoins Are Not the Future of Payments

Researchers at the New York branch of the U.S. central bank think tokenized deposits are the better way to go.

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